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Old Feb 21, 2009 | 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by mechanic28
aint those euro fighters designed that they physically can not fly by the pilot alone and that the computer has to constantly adjust it?reason for this is to make the plane unstable so it can perform ridiculous turns etc?

Yeah i watched a documentary on it, it said without the computers it would be unflyable as there constantly monitoring and changing things. that was the main thing the display pilot raved about when i spoke to him, he said the computers/electronics make it possible for you to do ridiculous manouvers, he also said the human body stops it showing its full potential as the plane can do a lot more than he or any other pilot could cope with, and the pilot is deffinatly the weak link in a eurofighter in his opinion. i asked how it compared to older planes like the tornado etc, he reckons if you tried some of the turns the eurofighter can do in a tornado, it would rip the wings off.
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